Joseph D. Morelle

Joe believes the most important investment we can make in our community is to invest in the people who call it home. As a former small business owner, Joe understands what it takes to build an economy that works for working people. That is why he is fighting to expand access to childcare for working families, increase the availability of affordable housing, strengthen workforce training programs, and support the needs of our community's businesses.

Expanding access to healthcare and lowering costs remains one of Joe’s top priorities. In Congress, Joe has helped lead efforts to end surprise medical billing, lower the cost of prescription drugs, and maintain critical protections for people with preexisting conditions. And Joe will continue to fight back against Republican efforts dismantle the Affordable Care Act.

Every day Joe goes to work fighting to protect and advance our our community's values and stand up to those who seek to erode them. In Washington, Joe has helped lead the charge to combat the effects of climate change, he is working tirelessly to keep our neighborhoods safe and enact common-sense gun reform measures, he remains committed to protecting a woman’s right to choose, and he will continue to fight for the equal rights of all people who call our nation home.

Supports expanding ballot access, limiting discriminatory voting practices, reducing dark-money influence, strengthening ethics rules, and increasing campaign-finance and public-office transparency.

• Current campaign material also highlights a congressional stock-trading ban, election-worker support, AI disclosure in political ads, and broader campaign-finance reform.

Supports protecting and strengthening Social Security and Medicare while expanding policies that help older adults remain independent at home.

• Campaign material also supports lower prescription-drug costs, stronger Social Security solvency, Medicaid home- and community-based services, and use of HSA funds for home care.

Supports expanding affordable healthcare coverage and lowering prescription-drug and other medical costs.

• Campaign material includes ACA coverage and affordability measures, telehealth, preventive screening, insulin and prescription affordability, newborn and military-family coverage, and oral-cancer treatment parity.

Supports federal protections for reproductive healthcare and broader legal and economic equality for women.

• Campaign material includes contraception, IVF, abortion access, health-data privacy, maternal health, equal pay, and the Equal Rights Amendment.

Supports federal gun-safety legislation including universal background checks, an assault-weapons and high-capacity-magazine ban, age restrictions, extreme-risk protections, waiting periods, and stronger accountability measures.

Supports reducing carbon pollution, protecting clean air and water, expanding environmental justice, and accelerating cleaner energy.

• Campaign material also includes carbon-pricing approaches, climate education, pollution and plastics measures, pollinator protection, and limits on oil-and-gas emissions.

Supports stronger opioid-use prevention, treatment, recovery, and fentanyl-response programs.

• Campaign material also supports grants, maternal substance-use services, and mental-health crisis response.

Supports expanding healthcare, caregiver assistance, outreach, home- and community-based care, dental care, and accountability for services provided to veterans.

Supports federal protections for LGBTQ+ people in employment, housing, public accommodations, marriage, and other areas.

• Campaign material also supports the Equality Act, restrictions on conversion therapy, data inclusion, anti-harassment protections, and international LGBTQ+ rights.

Supports stronger K-12 funding and infrastructure, school safety, student mental-health support, career and technical education, anti-bullying protections, and equitable school resources.

Supports reducing higher-education costs and expanding financial support for students.

• Campaign material includes student-loan interest reform, emergency student grants, greater cost transparency, and more flexible Pell Grant use.

Supports a family-affordability agenda spanning wages, childcare, housing, tax credits, nutrition assistance, school meals, and broadband access.

• Campaign material includes a higher minimum wage, child-care assistance, low-income housing tax credits, the Child Tax Credit, SNAP and hunger programs, and household connectivity support.